11.10 – 22.11.2014
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Elisabeth S. Clark, born in 1983, is an artist who lives and works between London and Paris. Her work has been the subject of many solo and group exhibitions, notably at the Globe Gallery (Newcastle, UK), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Le Forum (Tokyo, Japan), Fondation d’entreprise Ricard (Paris) and La Biennale de Lyon en Résonance (Lyon, France). Elisabeth S. Clark has also held residencies at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, the Fondation Hermès and more recently at the Gyeonggi Creation Center in South Korea.
Her work is often the result of simple gestures, slight appropriations, small actions. Like what punctuation is to words, these “small marks” produce subtle shifts of emphasis, which become acts of translation in themselves. They throw light on the materiality of the invisible. They implore the imagination. They “play” with the imperceptible limit.
Clark’s work also intrinsically explores the act of making, which she closely aligns with the act of thinking. By investigating movement and temporariness, she is interested in scribing thought and allowing the moment to become material.
In this exhibition, text, object and gesture-based works collide. Sculptures evoke performances and performances sculptures. And writing is used as a tool for drawing, imagining, catalyzing, timekeeping.
By placing in dialogue this movement (and slippage) between thought and thing, between now and then and between arrangements and re-arrangements, this exhibition not only interrogates but also exposes the impermanence and fluidity of meaning in works of art.
Clark’s “portrait” proposes a choreography of time and for time, but also one in perpetual fluctuation.
Elisabeth S. Clark, A portrait of the passing of time, Words that don’t keep still, 2014, series of letterpress prints, framed/ boxed,
42 x 29.7 cm (each print, unframed), 45.5 x 33.6 x 4.2 cm (presentation box), edition of 10, photo © Aurélien Mole
Elisabeth S. Clark, A portrait of the passing of time,
Words that don’t keep still, 2014, series of letterpress prints,
framed/ boxed, 42 x 29.7 cm (each print, unframed), 45.5 x 33.6 x 4.2 cm
(presentation box), edition of 10, photo © Aurélien Mole
Elisabeth S. Clark, A portrait of the passing of time, Words that don’t keep still, 2014, series of letterpress prints, framed/ boxed,
42 x 29.7 cm (each print, unframed), 45.5 x 33.6 x 4.2 cm (presentation box), edition of 10, photo © Aurélien Mole
Elisabeth S. Clark, A portrait of the passing of time, Éclat (Seine) : proposition pour une action éphémère sur les ponts de Paris, 2014,
antique engraved ‘Seine’ map (1835), watercolour, sketch for a performance, 18 x 27.3 cm (unframed), 25.7 x 35 cm (framed),
unique oeuvre, no artist’s proof (+ request to borrow work for future exhibitions), photo © Aurélien Mole
Elisabeth S. Clark, A portrait of the passing of time, Éclat (Seine) : proposition pour une action éphémère sur les ponts de Paris, 2014,
Let’s think of a title when we meet, 2014 and Twenty-five hour clock (the speed of), 2014, photo © Aurélien Mole
Elisabeth S. Clark, A portrait of the passing of time, Éclat (Seine) : proposition pour une action éphémère sur les ponts de Paris, 2014 and
Let’s think of a title when we meet, 2014, a single hardback book cover, bound in cream cotton starch construction bookcloth with cream endpapers, housed in a red leather entry slipcase with red-foil blocking to rear. 24 x 16.4 x 2 cm, edition of 5 + 2 AP, photo © Aurélien Mole
Elisabeth S. Clark, A portrait of the passing of time, Twenty-five hour clock (the speed of), 2014, custom clock, 12.5 x 3.5 cm,
edition of 5 + 2 AP, photo © Aurélien Mole
Elisabeth S. Clark, A portrait of the passing of time,
Words that don’t keep still, 2014, series of letterpress prints,
framed/ boxed, 42 x 29.7 cm (each print, unframed), 45.5 x 33.6 x 4.2 cm
(presentation box), edition of 10, photo © Aurélien Mole
Elisabeth S. Clark, A portrait of the passing of time, En un clin d’oeil 01h 59m 60s, 2012, Bad Ems, Germany, July 1st 2012, video, color, mute,
format 16/9, 29’ 09”, 218 street lamps flickering at the separating second, light intervention, duration : 1 second,
edition of 3 + 2 AP, photo © Aurélien Mole
Elisabeth S. Clark, A portrait of the passing of time,
Words that don’t keep still, 2012 and Till in its turn drew (again), 2014,
photo © Aurélien Mole
Elisabeth S. Clark, A portrait of the passing of time, Till in its turn drew (again), 2014, 35mm slide carousel tray, 81 slides coloured with fluorescent highlighter pens, slide projector and timer, variable dimensions, projection duration 40’,
unique pieces serie, photo © Aurélien Mole
Elisabeth S. Clark, A portrait of the passing of time, Spinning, 2014, video projection, color, mute, format 16/9, 2’30”,
edition of 3 + 2 AP, photo © Aurélien Mole
Elisabeth S. Clark,
A portrait of the passing of time, Spinning, 2014, video projection, color, mute, format 16/9, 2’30”,
edition of 3 + 2 AP, photo © Aurélien Mole
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